On the same day as Olympic champs PV Sindhu, Sakshi Malik and Dipa Karmakar received the Khel Ratna Awards, culture minister Mahesh Sharma warned female tourists against wearing short skirts in India. He later clarified that he only meant a dress code for holy places but the assumption was clear: the sight of bare female legs can push Indian men to criminal activity. We celebrate women power at the Olympics on the newspaper front page. On inside pages, we read reports of how every 15 minutes a woman or girl is raped. But hey, what do we care? Haven’t women won Olympic medals? Isn’t the battle for women’s empowerment being won?
Far from it. Indian sportswomen may have thrown off stereotypes Read More
